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ST Engineering announced that its Aerospace arm has secured a three-year airframe heavy maintenance contract from Alaska Airlines. Under the agreement ST Engineering will provide heavy maintenance support on the airlines fleet of Airbus A320 family aircraft comprising A319 A320 A321neo at the Groups facilities in San Antonio Texas U.S.. The first aircraft was inducted and redelivered in January 2020.ST Engineerings facility in San Antonio has 700000 square feet of hangar space that can accommodate eight widebody and seven narrowbody aircraft at San Antonio International Airport where about 1200 experienced and trained employees work round the clock to provide comprehensive aircraft maintenance and modification services for a wide range of commercial and VIP aircraft.Constance von Muehlen Senior Vice President of Maintenance Engineering Alaska Airlines said We are very happy to expand on our longstanding relationship by adding Alaska Airlines airframe base maintenance work to the San Antonio facility.According to industry reports demand for airframe heavy maintenance is expected to be led by North America and Western Europe in the next few years. In anticipation of the strong and growing demand ST Engineering is boosting its capacity to serve the North America region and its global customer base by expanding its existing airframe MRO facility in Pensacola. Construction work for the expansion is targeted to commence this year. Once completed the Pensacola facility will have a total annual capacity of 2.1 million labour hours.
